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Published online 2 January 2004

Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, Vol. 32, No. 1 115-126
© 2004 Oxford University Press

The major role of human AP-endonuclease homolog Apn2 in repair of abasic sites in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Balazs Ribar, Tadahide Izumi and Sankar Mitra*

Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, 6.148 Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX 77555, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 409 772 1780/1788; Fax: +1 409 747 8608; Email: samitra{at}utmb.edu

The abasic (AP) sites, the major mutagenic and cytotoxic genomic lesions, induced directly by oxidative stress and indirectly after excision of damaged bases by DNA glycosylases, are repaired by AP-endonucleases (APEs). Among two APEs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Apn1 provides the major APE activity, and Apn2, the ortholog of the mammalian APE, provides back-up activity. We have cloned apn1 and apn2 genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and have shown that inactivation of Apn2 and not Apn1 sensitizes this fission yeast to alkylation and oxidative damage-inducing agents, which is further enhanced by Apn1 inactivation. We also show that Uve1, present in S.pombe but not in S.cerevisiae, provides the back-up APE activity together with Apn1. We confirmed the presence of APE activity in recombinant Apn2 and in crude cell extracts. Thus S.pombe is distinct from S.cerevisiae, and is similar to mammalian cells in having Apn2 as the major APE.


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